Contact the jury staff via email at jurorhelp [at] dcsc.gov or phone at (202) 879-4604 if you have a scheduling conflict that would prevent you from serving on a trial. Do not assume that you will be here for only one day; you may be selected for a trial that may last for more than one day. See Deferrals. If you experience an emergency or last-minute scheduling conflict on the day of your scheduled service, talk to one of the Juror Office staff at the front counter. Rather than assign you to a courtroom, our jury staff can excuse you for that day and reschedule your service for a better time. We do not recommend that you wait until you are seated in a courtroom for the voir dire process -- the process by which jurors are selected -- to discuss scheduling conflicts that might impede serving on a trial. Upon learning of a scheduling conflict, many judges will excuse you from that particular trial, but will direct you to reschedule your service for a more opportune time.